Party affiliation among Mainline Protestants who say homosexuality should be discouraged by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among Mainline Protestants who say homosexuality should be discouraged by political party

% of Mainline Protestants who say homosexuality should be discouraged who identify as…

Religious denominationRepublican/lean Rep.No leanDemocrat/lean Dem.Sample size
American Baptist Churches USA52%12%35%181
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)55%13%32%140
Presbyterian Church (USA)64%7%29%109
United Methodist Church67%12%21%520
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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